How To Add Side Panels To A Dress

This 1's an oldie only a goodie. Refashion a knit shirt past inserting panels of fabric on the sides. The applied reasons behind doing this refashion could be:

1. make a modest shirt bigger

ii. make a big shirt smaller

iii. get rid of unsightly evidence of perspiration

4. use tapered fabric inserts to brand the bottom part of the shirt bigger to compensate for baby bump (either before or later on baby)

but the number ane reason in my volume:

1. it's fashion beautiful.

You will need a knit cotton shirt and some textile to brand the panels. I used woven, but you could too use another knit.

Cut up the side seam from the shirt hem to the sleeve hem – correct through the underarm.

Cut two panels from your fabric. If you're making the shirt bigger, simply cutting upward the side seam and insert panels equally wide as you need. If yous're making the shirt smaller, remove equal amounts of fabric from each side of the side seam then brand panels that are smaller than the amount y'all removed. Just remember that you're replacing it with a non-stretch fabric, and then that will help make the shirt smaller in itself.

Y'all can make the fabric insert run all the way betwixt each hem, but I also cut out a smaller square piece and attached information technology to the longer piece. That fashion yous take a seam in the panel right where you lot take the underarm seam in the knit shirt. I think it helps the woven to bend with your arm, only information technology isn't necessary.

Now sew the panel to both sides of the shirt, correct sides together, and hem the woven at each end. This is what the panel will wait like inserted into your shirt. Now do that once again for the other side.